Birth parents, both mothers and fathers, are a key piece of the adoption puzzle. The vast majority make the difficult decision to place their child for adoption out of what they perceived to be the ...

Entertainer and speaker Willie Moore Jr., who was adopted and later found his birth family, poses with his birth mother, Katrina Walton, left, and his ‘forever mom,’ Flora Moore. Photo courtesy of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — As she looks back on her experience traveling to Utah to place her child for an adoption, an Arkansas woman says she feels like “giving birth to my baby was a transaction.” “I was ...

Abandoned at a few days old in a public location, I spent much of my first year in an orphanage and found a forever family from a small town in Canada at nine months old. Adoption changed my life in ...

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - An Arkansas woman’s lifelong search for her birth mother ended just when she needed family the most – during her battle with breast cancer. Ashley Pruitt, 41, has ...

As her daughters get older, Hoda Kotb shared how she has broached the subject of them being adopted when they ask her about it. The former TODAY co-anchor spoke with Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle ...

Author Nicole Chung, shown here in a provided photo, has documented her experience growing up as a Korean American adoptee in a white family in Southern Oregon in her two memoirs, “All You Can Ever ...

Many Republicans see adoption as an alternative to abortion, and they want to see the practice get more federal and state support. This summer's Republican tax and spending bill included an expanded ...

Adoptive parents would be allowed to provide more financial support to birth mothers under a popular proposal in New York — where critics say it’s easier to get an abortion than to adopt a baby. In ...